Hello Friends. For those of you who don't know, I am spending the summer in Hancock County, Mississippi, the official ground zero of hurricane Katrina. I will be working with Next Step Ministries as the site director down here leading week long high school mission trips and two family trips. Our work crews are still repairing houses damaged by Katrina. Besides just working on the service projects we put together a nightly service to help the students to engage and grow spiritually and take the next step in their faith.
My team and I have been down here since last Sunday. The eight of us drove down here all the way from Madison. We have spent the week finding work projects, setting up our facilities, and doing other preparations to get ready for the first group that will be arriving sometime this afternoon. The church has a big commencement ceremony tonight for the VBS that they had this past week. So we have a lot of activity going on tonight!
We have a lot of cool sites that we are working on and I have a really awesome team so this week and the rest of the summer should prove to be a lot of fun. I will post pictures of our lodgings and work sites later this week and you can look forward to profiles of my team as well.
-chase
prayer requests:
*work sites would run smoothly
*our staff team would grow closer together
*the students coming would have open hearts and come to know Jesus this week!
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